Recherche de services bioinformatiques dans une ontologie
: investigation de la relation part-whole

  • Amandine Schuurman

Student thesis: Master typesMaster in Computer science

Abstract

Bioinformatics brings together all the data-processing programs applied to biology. The biologist, who makes use of these many tools, limits himself mainly to the programs he knows, even if they are not the best choice in respect of the analysis that he needs to carry out. Having noted this, we wish to help this user by integrating a part of the expertise that was up until now required of him. The current description of the services is insucient and we shall therefore work on the basis of an ontology that will enhance it. Bigre is a project the aim of which is to introduce a distributed system within the framework of bioinformatics ; it has been jointly developed by the University of Namur and the University of Brussels. This thesis comes within the scope of this project. We try to highlight the research aspect of services on the basis of the ontology proposed in Bigre. We then propose to improve this ontology with semantically richer relations, the part-whole relations.
Date of Award2005
Original languageFrench
SupervisorVincent Englebert (Supervisor)

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